As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.
I realized that I'm lonely without her and she's incomplete without me. There will be no end to our love story..
Everything that ever happened is just stories now, Earl. But it was all very real to people while it was happening. Wasn't it?
Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Sometimes it's the only story you knew how to tell.
so many people would be afraid to look in the mirror if the saw their character and not their face…it would be like american horror story.
There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was seven.
The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.
Virtually every magazine, newspaper, TV station and cable channel is owned by a big corporation, and they've squashed stories that they don't want the public to know about.
My stories are pretty simplistic, but the characters are always complex and always right, and that comes from the script and my research and reverse-engineering what I find in the real world.
I always want to make sure I'm telling a story about people that I care about.
I seem to only write New York stories because it's the only thing that inspires or interests me.
It's always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It's more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs.
The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25 years of jazz and still not do it justice.
Frazzled and delirious, as I've just finished a new book of stories. I feel like Moses staggering down the mountainside with the tablets of stone.
I try mainly to just focus on character and what my character's point of view is, with each person, and try to figure out story.
But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on.
I've always been involved with charities and things like that, but when I started communicating with the fans and hearing their stories about the lives they lead, it really made an impact on me.
I think it's because it was an emotional story, and emotions come through much stronger in black and white. Colour is distracting in a way, it pleases the eye but it doesn't necessarily reach the heart.
If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them.
You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
